Subtlety or omission?
The text relies heavily on what's left unsaid. Minimal dialogue, long pauses, scenes that end without catharsis. When it works, it's great. When it doesn't, it feels like someone forgot to write half the script and called it art.
There are interesting conflicts, but many are abandoned halfway through, as if the drama were afraid to face its own consequences. Emotions are suggested, but rarely explored to the end. There's that constant feeling of "okay, I understand the pain... and now what?"
The idea of women uniting with each other, especially to end each other's suffering, is very interesting. However, this idea falls apart in the first 5 chapters of the drama. Everything was going very well until the aggressor was killed and the story became what it became: boring, disconnected from the premise of the first chapters, and tiring to watch. Honestly, a waste of time, which is truly sad. When I started watching the drama, I had rewatched Gone Girl a few days before; and during the minutes and hours I was watching this drama, I thought, what if they had been more like Amy and the ending was less of a chase and more about them running away?
It would be better and would bring a much better message. I don't care about these supporting characters with uninteresting and unnecessary stories, I want the protagonists' story to have a good ending, that's what I want!
In the end, it's a drama that stays with you. Not because it transforms you, but because it leaves a feeling of calm emptiness, almost unsettling. The kind of story that stays inside you, looking out the window, undecided whether to leave or not.
And perhaps that's its greatest success... and its greatest limitation.
There are interesting conflicts, but many are abandoned halfway through, as if the drama were afraid to face its own consequences. Emotions are suggested, but rarely explored to the end. There's that constant feeling of "okay, I understand the pain... and now what?"
The idea of women uniting with each other, especially to end each other's suffering, is very interesting. However, this idea falls apart in the first 5 chapters of the drama. Everything was going very well until the aggressor was killed and the story became what it became: boring, disconnected from the premise of the first chapters, and tiring to watch. Honestly, a waste of time, which is truly sad. When I started watching the drama, I had rewatched Gone Girl a few days before; and during the minutes and hours I was watching this drama, I thought, what if they had been more like Amy and the ending was less of a chase and more about them running away?
It would be better and would bring a much better message. I don't care about these supporting characters with uninteresting and unnecessary stories, I want the protagonists' story to have a good ending, that's what I want!
In the end, it's a drama that stays with you. Not because it transforms you, but because it leaves a feeling of calm emptiness, almost unsettling. The kind of story that stays inside you, looking out the window, undecided whether to leave or not.
And perhaps that's its greatest success... and its greatest limitation.
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